Events From Past Years (by Academic Year)

2016 - 2017

September 9-10: "Aesthetic Afterlives: Memory, Transfiguration and the Arts," 9:30am - 6:30pm, 219 Aaron Burr Hall, Poster
September 26: Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University, "Karl Marx’s Jewish Question(s)" Kwartler Lecture,4:30pm, McCormick 101, Poster
September 30-October 1: "Ceux Qui Restent" (The Ones Who Remain)
November 15: "The Holocaust and Photography: New Perspectives from Eastern, Central and Western Europe, Michael Berkowitz, University College London, 12:00pm, 333 Wallace Hall
November 30: "Three Bodies of God in the Hebrew Bible, March Smith, Princeton Theological Seminary, 12:00pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell House
February 7: The 'Yemenite Babies' Affair, screening and discussion with Shlomo Hatuka, 4:30pm, E. Pyne 010
February 16: Francesca Bregoli, Queens College, "Your Father's Interests: Emotions, Business, and Judaism in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean," Biderman Lecture, 4:30pm McCormick 101
February 19: The 2nd Annual Undergraduate Judaic Studies Conference (UJSC). Details and Registration
February 27: A Walk in the Land: A Photographic Tour of Israel's National Trail," Udi Goren, 4:30pm, Center for Jewish Life
March 7: "From the Bible to the Beach: The 3,000-year Story of Hebrew," Lital Levy and Philip Zhakevich, Princeton University, 102 Jones Hall, 4:30pm
March 15: "What to Do When Everything is Untrue: American Jewish Myths about the Civil War," Adam Mendelsohn, University of Cape Town, 12:00pm, Chancellor Green 105
March 16: "Why Not Fight?: Awkward Truths about Jews and the Civil War," Adam Mendelsohn, University of Cape Town, 4:30pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell House
March 28: "Looking for Early Composite Sugyot," Robert Brody, Hebrew University, 4:30pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell House
March 29: "Aspects of Literacy and Orality among Medieval Jews and Their Neighbors," Robert Brody, Hebrew University, 4:30pm, 1879 Hall
April 5: "Building a Back-story: Archaeology and the Crafting of Israel's Conquest Narratives," Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, Princeton Theological Seminary, 12:00pm, Green Hall
April 12: "Poetry During the Holocaust and the Adornean Discourse of 'Poetry after Auschwitz'," Sven-Erik Rose, 4:30pm, 010 E. Pyne, Poster
April 19: "Theater of History: Encountering the Past in American Jewish Museums," Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 4:30pm, McCormick 101, Poster
May 8-9: "Balfour Declaration: 100 Years in History and Memory," 203 Scheide Caldwell House, Poster

2015 - 2016

October 1: 10^th Anniversary Kwartler Lecture. "An Evening with David Grossman: Reading and Discussion," 4:30pm, Betts Auditorium - Poster
October 2: Yaacob Dweck, “Sasportas in Zion,” Friday lunch series
October 8: Adele Reinhartz, "Aposynagogoi in the Gospel of John"
October 18: "In Between," Performance by Ibrahim Miari, followed by discussion - www.inbetweenplay.com
October 22: Joel Baden, Yale Divinity School, “The Theology of the Redaction of the Pentateuch,” 4:30pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell House
October 26: A Conversation with Anna Bikont, author of "The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jewabne," 4:30pm, 245 East Pyne - Poster
November 9: Daniel Schroeter, University of Minnesota, "Righteous Among Nations? Mohammed V and the Jews during Vichy Rule in Colonial Morocco," 4:30pm, East. Pyne 010 - Poster
November 16: Florentina Geller, Freie Universität Berlin, 4:30pm, 1879 Hall
December 3: Tara Zahra , University of Chicago, “Emigration, Ethnic Cleansing, or Humanitarianism: The Campaign to Resettle Eastern European Jews in the 1930s,” 4:30pm, E. Pyne 010 - Poster
December 10: Jonatan Benarroch, Hebrew University
February 3: Cana Werman, Ben Gurion University, “Canonization of the Hebrew Bible in Light of Qumran Literature," 12:00, 1879 Hall
February 9: Martti Nissensen, University of Helsinki
Feb. 14: "By Dawn's Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War" Schedule
February 14: Undergraduate Conference
on Judaic Studies, 203 Scheide Caldwell House
February 29- March 4: Mytelka Scholar in Residence, Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv University
March 2: Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv University, "Joshua in Tiberias, Samson in Arbel: Images of the Divine in Non-Rabbinic Galilean Culture of Late Antiquity," 4:30pm, 010 E. Pyne Poster
March 20-22: “Beyond Authority: Composition and Transmission in Late Antiquity” - Poster
March 21: Film Screen and Q & A, "Footnote" with Director Joseph Cedar, 5:00pm, McCormick 101 Poster
March 29: Ben Outhwaite, Cambridge University, "Beyond the Aleppo Codex: Bible Manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza and the Textus Receptus," 4:30pm, McCormick Hall - Poster
April 3: Frederick Beiser, "Hermann Cohen's Love/Hate Relationship with Spinoza, 1867-1915," 7:30pm, Lewis Library Room 138 Poster
April 3-4: "Judaism in Modern Philosophy: Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, and the Legacies of German Idealism" - Poster
May 11: E. Randol Schoenberg '88, A Conversation about Art Restitution Law following a screening of Woman in Gold (2015), 101 McCormick Hall, 7:30 pm - Poster

2014 - 2015

September 23: "Rosenzweig, Goitein, and Agnon on the Song of Songs," 4:30 pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell House
October 1: Near Eastern Film Series, "The Wonders," 7:30pm, 100 Jones Hall (Hebrew with English subtitles)
October 20: Yair Dalal, Musician and composer, "Baghdad - Jerusalem: Musical Encounters, 4:30pm | Poster
November 10: Etgar Keret, Author, "Warsaw House: The Art of Necessary," Ebel Lecture, 4:30pm, E. Pyne 010 | Poster
November. 17: Patrick Sänger, Institute for Advanced Study, “The Politeuma: A Normal Kind of Association for ‘Ethnic” Groups?”, 4:30 pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell House
December 2: Yosef Kaplan, Hebrew University, "The Taming of Eros in the Western Sephardic Diaspora," Biderman Lecture, 4:30pm, Robertson Hall, Bowl 2
January 21: Robert Eisen, George Washington University, "Justifying Israel's Wars in Jewish Law: Challenges and Solutions," 012 Bendheim, 4:00pm
February 5: Geoffry Khan, University of Cambridge, "The Reconstruction of the Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew"
February 11: Yuval Sinai and Benjamin Shmueli, "Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory," 12:00pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell House
February 12: Screening and discussion of "Awake Zion"
February 23: Dr. Maureen Jackson, "Mixing Musics: the Sacred Songs of Istanbul Jews," Mytelka Lecture, 4:30pm, E. Pyne 010
March 10: Shaul Shaked, "The Jews of Bamiyan: A Community of Traders and Scholars in Eleventh-Century Khorasan," Jones 202, 4:30pm
March 23: Pnina Lahav, Boston University, "Golda Meir: American Roots, Zionist Life," Lapidus Lecture, 219 Aaron Burr Hall, 4:30pm | Poster
March 24: Laura Levitt, Temple University, "Holding the Past: Justice and the Promise of Jewish History," Kwartler Lecture, 4:30pm, E. Pyne 010
April 9 and 10: Frames: Jewish Culture and the Comic Book Aaron Burr Hall | Poster
April 16: Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles, "Bureaucracy of War: Jewish and Non-Jewish Refugees in Morocco, 1940-1945," 4:30pm, 010 E. Pyne | Poster
April 27: Yakir Englander, "The Secrets of the Haredi World," 4:30pm, McCosh 2 | Poster
April 28: Shimon Shamir, Tel Aviv University, "Should Israel Regard Itself as Middle Eastern? The Internal Debate," Carolyn L. Drucker '80 Memorial Lecture, 4:30pm, McCormick Hall, Room 101 | Poster
April 29: Ruth Gavison,"Political Zionism: The Dilemma of Liberal Jews," The James Diamond Memorial Lecture, 4:30 pm, Computer Science Building, Room 104, | Poster

2013 - 2014

October 14: Jeffrey Tigay, University of Pennsylvania “Literal or Liberal? Loose Construction of Law and Jewish Interpretation of the Torah,” Biderman Lecture, 4:30pm East Pyne Auditorium Poster
November 7: Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University, “The Eichmann Trial and the Arendt Controversy: Their Impact on Holocaust Studies,” Rose and Isaac Ebel Memorial Lecture, 4:30pm 100 Jones Hall Poster
November 15: Almog Behar, Tel Aviv University, “Locating Arab-Jewish/Mizrahi Literature: Between Jewish Liturgy, Arab Music and Israeli Hebrew” Poster
November 22: Ryan Dulkin, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, “Who is to Blame? Evolving Rabbinic Perspectives on Culpability in the Garden of Eden Narrative,” Friday Lunch Series
December 6: Moulie Vidas, Princeton University, “Antiquarianism and Talmudic Culture: On the Surprising Bookishness of the Rabbis,” Friday Lunch Series
December 9: Rabbi Professor Daniel Sperber, "On Partnership: A New Egalitarian Movement in the Traditional Jewish Community," 4:30 pm, Center for Jewish Life Library Poster
February 17: Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, "School Pictures in Liquid Time: Assimilation, Exclusion, Resistance"
February 23: The Near Eastern Studies Film Series - “One Day after Peace" A film by Erez Laufer and Miri Laufer - 86 minutes. In Hebrew & English with English subtitles. More Information
February 28: Annette Y. Reed, University of Pennsylvania, "Enoch, the Astronomical Book, and the ordering of Knowledge in the Hellenistic Near East"
March 4: Dragan Kujundžić, “Frozen Time, Liquid Memories (1942-2012),” Film and conversation with the director Poster
March 6: Natascha Drubek, “Concentration Camp as Film Set: The Ambivalent Bequest of the Theresienstadt Films 1942-1945" Poster
March 10: Hindy Najman, Yale University, "Temporality in 4 Ezra: Between Judaism and Christianity," Jeannette Krieger and Herman D. Mytelka Memorial Lecture, 4:30pm East Pyne Auditorium Poster
March 23: The Near Eastern Studies Film Series - "Before the Revolution" in Hebrew with English subtitles
March 23-25: Conference, “Placing Ancient Texts: The Rhetorical and Ritual Use of Space"
March 26: Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley, "Translating the Song of Songs: English Poetry and Hebrew Sense" Poster
March 26-27: Conference: “The Song of Songs: From the Bible to Modern Literature” Poster
March 31: "Jewish-Muslim Relations in Print and in Film"
April 2: Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture, David B. Ruderman, "The Revival of the Jewish-Christian Debate in NIneteenth Century Europe"
April 4: Robert Goldenberg, Stony Brook University, "Ancient Globalization and a Coin of the Emperor Nerva," Friday Lunch Series
April 10: Sayed Kashua, author and journalist, "The Foreign Mother Tongue," Kwartler Family Lecture, 4:30pm Poster
April 25: Eshbal Ratson, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, “The Gates Cosmology of the Astronomical Book,” Friday Lunch Series
May 4: The Near Eastern Studies Film Series, "Ponevezh Time," in Hebrew with English subtitiles
May 15: Daniel Stoekl, EPHE-Sorbonne, "Seasoning the BIble - Biblifying the Time: Cross Examining the Jewish and Christian Liturgical Reading Cycles in Late Antiquity"
May 28: MK Dr. Ruth Calderon, "The Talmud of Today: How a Secular Jew Fell in Love with the Talmud," Rabbi James S. Diamond Memorial Lecture Poster | Video